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pdp7@fosstodon.org

Drew Fustini

Interesting replies on kernel newbies from @gregkh and @monsieuricon
> What does "TIP" stand for in the repository
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/?
' "Thomas" "Ingo" "Peter", the original maintainers of that tree (i.e. the
x86 maintainers tree, which has now grown to other people and other
parts of the kernel.)'
https://lore.kernel.org/kernelnewbies/CAE7jHC-CCgLLc=0wvJg0uwcQ-nSJ5Xh9nR2PAS5+iAUgi-GiYw@mail.gmail.com/

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev

Reply to @pdp7@fosstodon.org
@pdp7 @gregkh just out of curiosity I asked ChatGPT what "tip.git" stands for, and it assures me, that it stands for "Tracking Important Patches". Which is on par with LLMs, I guess.
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gregkh

Greg K-H

Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon @pdp7 {sigh} Good news is the machines aren't going to be replacing us any time soon I guess.
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mndflayr@metalhead.club

mndflayr damnified debian

Reply to @gregkh

@gregkh @pdp7 @monsieuricon

"Kill all humans except the Linux kernel developers"...

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benoit@toots.benpro.fr

Benoit

Reply to @monsieuricon

@monsieuricon @pdp7 @gregkh with a hint it works nicely. Without any context it's not able to understand what is "tip"...

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alerque@mastodon.social

Caleb Maclennan

Reply to @benoit@toots.benpro.fr

@benoit @monsieuricon @pdp7 @gregkh If you have to know the answer and drop a hint to get a correct answer and otherwise it silently fails by giving a made up answer then what use is it to anybody.

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vbabka

Vlastimil Babka

Reply to @alerque@mastodon.social
@alerque @benoit @monsieuricon @pdp7 @gregkh even with the hints it's still a wrong answer as it was named for a different Peter.
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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

Reply to @vbabka
@vbabka @alerque @benoit @gregkh @monsieuricon @pdp7 I had a lot of fun asking chatgpt about vma merge cases. The answers were... interesting.

Now even more wrong since I removed them all... ;)
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mathieu@fosstodon.org

Mathieu

Reply to @vbabka

@vbabka @pdp7 @alerque @gregkh @monsieuricon @benoit ah I was like, wait that can't be that Peter.
Prime LLM example right there. Might do a poster of that one.

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